Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates in double-well potentials

Details Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates in double-well potentials Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates in double-well potentials

2008-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/0811.1314v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

14 pages, 12 figures, Physica D, in press

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In this work, we consider quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), with spatially varying collisional interactions, trapped in double well potentials. In particular, we study a setup in which such a 'collisionally inhomogeneous' BEC has the same (attractive-attractive or repulsive-repulsive) or different (attractive-repulsive) type of interparticle interactions. Our analysis is based on the continuation of the symmetric ground state and anti-symmetric first excited state of the noninteracting (linear) limit into their nonlinear counterparts. The collisional inhomogeneity produces a saddle-node bifurcation scenario between two additional solution branches; as the inhomogeneity becomes stronger, the turning point of the saddle-node tends to infinity and eventually only the two original branches remain present, which is completely different from the standard double-well phenomenology. Finally, one of these branches changes its monotonicity as a function of the chemical potential, a feature especially prominent, when the sign of the nonlinearity changes between the two wells. Our theoretical predictions, are in excellent agreement with the numerical results.

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